hated phrases

[missmooncat]

What sayings/prases do you hare i detest

at the end of the day  gob-smacked   fell pregnant  went on autopilot  

[jjude]

someone might already have mentioned this one - but more Trisha-speak which drives me mad is

'she turned round and said...'

so I turned round and said....

just imagine a conversation going on while both parties spinning round all the time! 

[tubeway]

people making exclaimation marks with their fingers

Its not rocket science

Luvvly Jubbly

putting kinda, or sort of or like in scentences as a filler

[Steve_Luts]

I hate "d'you know what I mean" with a passion!

I always think "No, I don't, but I do know that you are thick as pigsh!t, and therefore unable to explain your point of view in an easily understood manner!"

I have just got back from a mate's stag do, and the woman in the seat next to me managed to rabbit, constantly, all the way from Palma to Heathrow in this inane drivel. If she had any realisation of how close she was to getting booted out of the emergency exit at 36000ft she might have put a sock in it. D'y knaaa wa' I mean?!?!?

Come the glorious day - first against the wall!

[mycatis]

People who ask "how" when they mean "why" ggggrrrrr

[Bert]

Nobody has mentioned "I can't get my head round this". Someone did mention the Australian rising inflexion that makes every statement sound like a question. I really think that this practice is diminishing. We may hope that "Y'nowo'ahmeen" may also die out (the sooner the better).
It is very difficult to mention this, but there would be less grinding of teeth here if Answerbankers would check grammar, spelling and punctuation before submitting an answer (or a question), especially when they are complaining about poor patterns of speech.

[coldfeet]

"crash pad" and "wow-factor" really **** me off. All those "Phil and Kirsty/Kevin McLoed" types have a lot to answer for!

[SC00BY]

another one!   "can you borrow me a tenner" that isn't even a sentance.

[missmooncat]

another that annoys me is "less is more" and "grey is the new black"  how?? impossible

[Dark Angel]

"200% sure"

"believe you me""

"What say you?"

"fell pregnant"

"lady of leisure"

"an arm and a leg"

"I got an invite to that party"

[Dark Angel]

"100% useless"

"come on, crack on"

[Beth_C]

Finishing every sentence with 'yer' or 'right'

constantly during a sentence saying 'um, er, hm'

'init' In what?

'I'm not being funny...but' well if your not being funny, then why does that sentence always go off onto insulting someone/thing? And why not being funny? Why is being two faced and nasty classed as funny, I'm sure the person who is being insulted doesn't find it funny in the slightest...and what is two faced? How many people do you know that are two faced? Even the most nasty people who go round stabbing people in the back only actually have one face...and how many people do you actually know who have stabbed someone in the back? If every one had actually stabbed someone in the back then most of the population would be in prison! Ridiculous sayings!

[missmooncat]

dark angel i hate that one  "fell pregnant" i just think of a pregnant woman falling over.And "got caught pregnant" someone throwing and catching a pregnant woman.

[sweggie]

My favourite hated expression has to be 'Ball park figure' for when someone would like an estimate cost! No! Please stop it! A mate a mine said it to someone in the pub the other night and everyone found it amusing when i actual gave him verbal abuse for saying it.  

[missmooncat]

not heard that one before sweggie(thank god).

[Fubsy]

"With all due respect". My brother-in-law used it all the time and it drove me barmy.  He always said it if he disagreed with you and he showed not the slightest respect in his dealings with anyone!

I used to work for an American financial organisation so there were some corkers flying about in meetings.  "We're talking blue sky here" or "we're talking green field here".  "We need to create synergies" and we were always exhorted to "think outside the box" and to "push the envelope".

It always reminded me of Gus, the character in Drop the Dead Donkey!  "Just wanted to pop it in your mental microwave and see if it defrosts!"

A friend of mine devised a game called bull***t bingo to play in these meetings.  You had to make a note of each ludicrous buzz word or expression and then we'd see who had the most at the end of the meeting.

My absolute pet hate though is Americanisms.  The ones where they take a noun like DIARY and then make a verb out of it.  So at work we were not asked to make a note in our diary, we were asked to DIARISE.  It's making me shudder remembering it all!

[lizzierose]

i hate he collective term "raft", especially in politics. as in we're bringing in a "raft of measures"

[missmooncat]

other ones i hate are when companies/organisations use there initials to make a word I can`t just think of any at the moment.I remember the virus which was going round in china called acute respiratory syndrome A.R.S They soon added the sudden on the front(S.A.R.S)

[gordy_b]

I'm on a roll now.....

I can't stand people who say "I should of done this, and I could of done that."  Perhaps we should all buy them the word HAVE for Christmas and teach them when to use it.  Alternatively we could encourage the teaching of grammar from primary school upwards.